The Texas House wants to give the state prison system $160 million more to help care for inmates. The Senate wants to cut funding.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Texas House and Senate about $3 billion apart on public education spending
Two rival budget proposals offer a starting point for debate between the two chambers on public school funding and property tax relief.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Texas Senate proposes $3.7 billion for mandated teacher raises
Senate leaders say they will require districts to use the money to give $5,000 raises to each teacher.
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Politics
Texas House proposes massive increase for public school funding
The proposed budget would increase state funds for education by about 17 percent but cut funding for health and human services by about 3 percent.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Texas lawmakers indicate they may use rainy day fund for school security, hurricane recovery and teachers’ pensions
Hurricane Harvey, school safety and teacher pensions all made the list of priorities likely to receive funding from the state’s Economic Stabilization Fund.
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Higher Education
Texas Tomorrow Fund needs $211 million from the next state budget to close shortfall, comptroller says
The prepaid tuition plan is guaranteed by the state, so lawmakers will need to set the money aside when they write a new budget this year.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar gives lawmakers cautiously optimistic revenue estimate for 2019 session
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced Monday that the state will have $119.1 billion for lawmakers to use in putting together the state’s 2020-21 budget.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Analysis: To the relief of Texas lawmakers, voters just aren’t into state budgets
Most of what the state government does is spelled out in the budget Texas lawmakers write every two years. Lucky for them, most voters don’t pay close attention to what’s in that big stack of numbers.
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Guides
What’s the point of Texas’ rainy day fund?
Texas’ Economic Stabilization Fund holds more than $11 billion and is the largest in the country. There’s a lot of disagreement over how and when to spend the money.
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Politics
Analysis: These Texas candidates are about to find out what they’ve really won!
The campaigns were long and hard, and now we know the winners. Let’s look at what they’re in for once they take office in 2019.
